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Thursday, January 5, 2012

I have over 4,000 pictures of bee removals we have done over the years. I'll be selecting a few from each year to help get this blog started!

Here is a removal I did where the bees were under a prefab fire place.

Here is one that was in a ceiling of an apartment

At the same apartment job my dad (left) and friend Rusty were helping me.

Here's a removal I did where the honey comb had broken and fell into the insulation.

One of my favorite removals was this one where the colony moved into the shutoff valve for a fire hydrant.

The next two pictures are of a removal I did on a old southern antebellum home in South Georgia. They were in the process of restoring the home when they found the bees. The colony is on the left (I know the picture isn't that good) the red triangle shows honey comb where a previous colony once lived.

This being our first blog I thought I would simply explain what we will be blogging about. In the coming days I'll be posting pictures of some of our past bee removals. I've grown tired of trying to keep up with a photo album on our website. Plus we don't have a way for our customers to leave comments (customer reviews) for the jobs we do. While I'm not expecting much in the way of comments with these first posts of past jobs I do hope that in the future customers will post comments on jobs we do for them, the good and the bad. My only request is if something isn't right with the job we did, give us the chance to make it right.

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William “Bill” Brian Owens, native of Georgia, grew up around honey bees as a child. He loved nature and the outdoors. After a serving in the U.S. Navy, Bill settled in Monroe, Georgia. Bill also joined the Monroe City Fire Department. In 2000, Bill converted his small single hive hobby into a successful sideline business with over 100 colonies called Owen Apiaries (Apiary means bee farm).
After five years of study in 2006 through the University of Georgia and Young Harris College, Bill earned the certification and title Master Craftsman Beekeeper. Bill is the first beekeeper in Georgia to earn the highest certification in this trade. It is a title which he alone still holds as of today. Bill’s work is published in multiple news and magazine articles. He has honey bee research published in Apidologie. In 2011, he co-wrote and published his first book on honey bee removals.
Bill is an entrepreneur, author, instructor, firefighter and beekeeper who enjoys the simple life with his wife Lisa, their dogs and acres of bees. Bill and Lisa hope to build a small house on their 10 acres of land in Morgan County. Where they can have their own homestead.